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Originally Posted by DixieGal
Hey y'all, I just noticed something. Wooster and Narritch and Glosster and so on are Old England place names. Did we corrupt the pronounciation on purpose back in the colonial days?
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You did lots of things in those days .....
It's always been boy & kee to me....
It's an interesting subject
Harry, and is likely to play havoc with careful crafting of rhyming poetry ...
It is also not just a Brit/US curse, but also a north/south England one -
knowing how to say cup and butter correctly, for instance, in our household is an occasional source of mirth..... (I'm always right - of course)